HouseShoes
1yr ago
I think this is similar to what Carlous Rex told himself when deciding to advance ahead of his supply lines and into Russia. And in his defense, taking the initiative had helped him in a number of previous battles and to secure his kingdom.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
The Vikes had one of the most-fun, most-improbable seasons ever. But their o-line has been wrecked by injuries. Setting aside people lazily scapegoating Cousins too much, I just don’t think the backups and retreads up front can keep their offense going. And I also don’t know why Ed Donatell hates his secondary. Did Patrick Peterson kick Donatell’s dog? I’m struggling to come up with an explanation for the coverages called that in no way flatter a secondary that is not that fast. Ultimate Vikings horrorshow would be facing Miami in the Super Bowl and giving up 250 yards to Waddle and Hill, each.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Hockey has similar rules to soccer and baseball in terms of the field of play — there are minimum and maximum rink width and length requirements but not one, standardized official rink size. The NHL rinks as a whole skew toward the smaller end of those tolerances.
Bigger rinks favor speed and smaller rinks favor strength, not that both aren’t broadly useful. So, smaller players aren’t always given their due by NHL teams. The 5’10” Kaprizov wound up on the Wild’s radar when a flight delay prompted some of their scouts to check out a Metallurg Novokuznetsk game in which Kaprizov was playing given they were stuck in Russia for another night. He would go on to sign the largest contract extension for a second-year player in NHL history.
Not white but I’ve been keeping an eye on Thomas Booker in terms of students of the game. He could have held his own as an NFL D-line coach coming out of Stanford at 22. Was only a fifth-round pick, so the Texans’ expectations weren’t more than rotational player. Also, guys that play as a 4/4i tend to do the dirty work so their teammates can put up stats. But rooting for him to develop.
Is hockey exempted because it’s mostly white? If not, when Kirill Kaprizov was drafted he was seen as crafty and undersized. Turns out he’s sufficiently crafty to compensate.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sczun-f_Uiw
The lack of respect!
HouseShoes
1yr ago
No worries and thanks for checking.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Babylon Berlin was fun. U.S. Netflix has the first-three seasons. Season four has finished in Germany, and is supposed to be out on U.S. Netflix sometime this year.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
De La Soul: Classic back catalogue finally available for streaming
Fun news if you like ‘90s hip hop. A court decision on sampling rendered De La Soul’s first six albums unable to be monetized, which has kept them off streaming services. But a new rights-holder is reported to have worked out the licensing. ETA is early March for streaming.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
That I don’t know. I’ve got three acquaintances I follow on there via their RSS feeds who are all cinephiles. I’ve not signed up for an account, myself, per my personal no social media policy.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Right, I wasn’t taking any stance on the slogan. I’m pointing out the historical fact much of the country reacted strongly against it coming so soon after JFK’s assassination.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Our induction range is wonderful, and as a PMC foodie, works just fine with all the Le Creuset and Staub we originally bought for use with gas.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Yes, but folks in cooler states aren’t going to consent to having their water diverted to the Southwest and southern California.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Manning was still a highly-rated physical prospect relative to a pocket passer — 6’5”, 230 pounds and a legit pro arm as a young man.
Drew Brees would be a better shout. 6’0” and seen as a system QB at Purdue, which pushed him down into the second round.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
I just finished Harvey Sachs’ The Ninth about the historical context, both musically and politically, for Beethoven’s final symphony. It was a relatively short and enjoyable read, and nice to get more detail on the world and time in which it was composed.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
So you don’t think there was a noticeable shift left that at a minimum overlaps the digital age, whatever the press’s aggregate position before it?
HouseShoes
1yr ago
This is true for the major outlets but not the industry as a whole. And my point was not that journalism will fully cease to be. But that consolidating up to the biggest publications caused small-to-midsized ones, and all the jobs they provided, to shrink, and that contraction’s impact, in combination with other factors, helped push the industry left.
This, too, also has a feedback loop. With the rise of cable TV and social media, politics are increasingly national, so easy enough for papers around the country to just syndicate stories from the AP, Reuters, WaPo, the NYT and WSJ, as readers who live outside New York and D.C. are less interested in a localized view of politics.
And that was the end of Goldwater's future aspirations…
I think that depends on how you define his aspirations. The odds were against him when he ran for president, but when his speechwriter Karl Hess put what has since been paraphrased as, “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue,” in his Republican convention acceptance speech, it got him absolutely shit-hammered in the press. A reeling public associated extremism with JFK’s assassination, and regardless of what one thinks of the sentiment or the man, it was a national P.R. blunder that made those long odds far longer.
From there, Buckley takes the helm of American conservatism, gate keeps the Birchers (who Goldwater was repeatedly reluctant to condemn, also doing himself no P.R. favors), and in a few elections’ time Reagan wins the presidency.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
There are many influential groups in and around Washington strongly in favor of supporting Ukraine and opposing Russia. Foreign service lifers like the Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland wing who are neoliberal interventionists, and folks working for the military industrial complex that had to delay buying a second vacation home or remodeling their mansion in northern Virginia when the Afghanistan tap got cut off, to name two of the more powerful. The likelihood that Biden is the primary advocate for the U.S.’s involvement seems slim.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Thank you and best of luck.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
He donated to both parties, and the press is aware, and has an easy narrative. I for one do not concur.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Fine, but what does that say if the underlying example ultimately proves to be wrong? That Baldwin, the triggerman, is only the equivalent of the specific person who let the virus loose?
HouseShoes
1yr ago
A tangent on Jim Biden — the seedier folks involved with Dickie Scruggs were tossing Jim’s name around as part of a new lobbying firm they were going to open in D.C. before the feds came down on them.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
Susceptibility to hangovers. I’m an oenophile and have always been a moderate drinker. The supermajority of days I have a single glass of wine with dinner. But on social occasions in my 20s, three or four glasses over a long evening never caused me any discomfort the next morning. I usually cap myself at two or maybe three, now, because even three is becoming a gamble with worsening odds.
HouseShoes
1yr ago
It’s more exciting if there’s a coordinated effort, but within publications via Slack and industry wide via Twitter, the media is now more connected to one another than they were, before. It’s a lot easier for this terminology to spread, and does not necessarily require a premeditated, coordinated effort.
A tangent:
Find a cinephile or three to follow on Letterboxd who’s taste you respect. You don’t even have to sign up for an account or visit the website as Letterboxd provides an RSS feed for each user account.
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